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Yah see i am ranked curently at 4th kyu, My girlfreind is ranked 5th going for 6th. so i can say that my significant other just loves it. One time me and her were doing randori on my front lawn and these two guys drove by in a jeep and carved over and hopped out of the jeep screeming at me. I couldnt understand. then i realized that i was performing Irimi nage to her just as they drove by. they thought I was hurting her. we had to explain to them that we wre in aikido and that she was of higher rank then me.

does she just watch or paticipate... if she really is not into it see if she and you can find her a hobby that balances your aikido time and possibly another hobby you can both share...

shes not into it at all, she has only tagged along when she had nothing better to do, Ive asked her if she wanted to try a class, and she is not intrested at all....we do plenty of other stuff together so its no big deal

My fiance is the same way I have asked her to give Aikido a try but won't have a bar of it. She trained judo when she was a teenager and every now and then when I am being annoying and trying techniques on her she realizes that there are a lot of similarities with the 2 arts. But like Lynn said just accept that she doesn't find Aikido that interesting and try and find something else that you both can enjoy together.

Well, he'd probably be disappointed in me if I blew off going to the dojo this morning to go pick him up two hours earlier. Then again, he was the one who pointed me toward aikido to begin with...and even though he says he can no longer fall painlessly I've been trying to get him on the mat ever since...

its funny I was talking to my girlfriend and as bored as she is watching the classes she said she'd like to try one come this summer when she has time......I will never understand the female of the species

When I met my wife, she tried Aikido once, but didn't really follow up on it. There was a public suggestion at our wedding that I should reduce the number of nights that I train. I figured it was a fair compromise. 10 years later, my wife has been practicing for close to two years and currently ranks 4th kyu. We don't have enough training days in the week to balance between us both training and looking after "junior". Consequently, we don't actually get to practice with each other, but she enjoys Aikido a lot. She's looking forward to our return to Japan next month when she can train with my Sensei for the first time.

Liking Aikido has nothing to do with a relationship, there's plenty of single people out there that don't like it either. It's not really important is it? If you want to keep the relationship, you just need to ensure that it has balance.

rgds

Bryan

rgds

Bryan

A difficult problem is easily solved by asking yourself the question, "Just how would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

its funny I was talking to my girlfriend and as bored as she is watching the classes she said she'd like to try one come this summer when she has time......I will never understand the female of the species